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AARRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Do you hear me yet? Listen closely. AARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! This is the sound of the pain and suffering bloggers on WordPress.com and WordPress make when they encounter the most lovely and useful of WordPress Themes that lack a few of the most basic elements. Come on, folks. Can’t you read? This is common sense stuff […]

“Design Choices Can Cripple a Website”, by Nick Usborne on A List Apart, explores how the choices you make in choosing and creating a website design can make or break your site or blog. Here’s how design choice can make a difference Here are just a few of the design elements we have found can […]

I just heard about a great website. It came highly recommended. I was told that it was packed with tons of web design tips, techniques, and resources. I visit the site and it’s sure pretty and, indeed, packed with great web design tips, techniques, resources, and even a lot of references to web standards and […]

There is a myth in website design that once the site is designed you can sit on your laurels and just wait for traffic. There is another myth that once you’ve designed a website, it’s never ending tweaking. The first is definitely not true, as a website is a living entity, constantly undergoing changes and […]

Garticles’ “Elements of Graphic Design for Your Website offers some good basic tips to consider regarding the graphic design elements of your website or blog. It all comes down to the K.I.S.S. principle; keep it simple stupid. And you’re probably asking well what does this really mean for web design. Here are some basic graphic […]

Majoring in business communications at university, and starting my own design and ad agency when I was still in high school, the psychology of advertising has always fascinated me. Stylegala’s Design Psychology is a brilliant essay on the thought process behind web page design – or what should be behind every web page design. Okay, […]

When it comes to mixing up a rainbow of colors for your WordPress blog or website, one of my personal favorites is Color Schemer. You can pick a color and it will show colors related and in the color theme for that color, darken or lighten it, or mix up some other features to find […]

Website Layout Cookbook – An Illustrated Reference for Designing Website Layouts showcases various website layouts in a catalog format for you or your client to browse looking for possible layout styles. As a reference for the web designer, this website provides over 500 layouts to use in planning and designing websites. Various elements such as […]

This WordPress Theme called “Pool” I’m currently using is designed by Borja Fernandez and works well for my blog here on wordpress.com. We don’t have a lot of choices here, but I liked the look and some of the details, but after a few months using this Theme, there are a lot of details I […]

Code Coffee’s Top 9 Javascripts for Your Website is worth a look if you are using the full version of WordPress. However, be sure and take a look at how to use Javascript in WordPress before you incorporate these javascripts into your WordPress blog or site. The list includes Javascripts to help with forms, opening […]

We’ve covered web pages that suck, common validation errors, broken WordPress Themes, finding bad links, optimization, web standards, and bad writing, and now we’ve found another list of more website design and development mistakes you need to know about. 465 Berea Street – Web development mistakes, redux covers more of the more common website mistakes […]

I’m always looking for examples of step-by-step instructions and resources to help you learn more about website and blog design and layout. Here’s another one. Design in Flight’s article, “Soup to Nuts Making a CSS Based Layout Start to Finish” tackles a standard HTML layout and how to develop it. WordPress users should look at […]

While content sells your blog to its audience, the readability isn’t just based on the words, it’s also based upon the letters. The fonts you choose to design your website or blog can make or break your audience’s ability to read the words. I’ll be talking a lot more about what fonts work best with […]

The following are links to sites to help you design a web page or WordPress blog’s WordPress Theme. These include references for styling or designing your site using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML tips and techniques, accessibility issues, web standards, and designing your web design for mobile, handheld computers, and print. CSS – Reference Cascading […]

A lot of people are martyrs and want to get their hands in the dirt and design their own WordPress Theme from scratch. That’s okay. I did that, and then got smarter. Let’s start with the smarter choice. First, find a WordPress Theme architecture that you like, be it one or two sidebars, or no […]